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1920 Community Picnic
Community picnic
RG3542.PH-102-17
John Nelson was born in Harestad, Sweden, in 1864. He came to Wheeler County with his parents at the age of seventeen. From there he traveled to the gold fields of Colorado, where he became acquainted with photography.
He returned to Nebraska and established a studio in Ericson. His photographs tell the story of small town life in Nebraska during the first decades of the Twentieth Century. His subjects included his local businesses, community activities, and early automobiles.
Help Us Digitize the photograph collections and make them available to you on this website
to the Nebraska State Historical Society